Naut. [QUARTER sb. 22.]
1. A kind of balcony with windows, projecting from the quarter of a large vessel; cf. GALLERY 2 d.
1769. in Falconer, Dict. Marine (1784), D ij.
1796. Nelson, 10 March, in Nicolas, Disp. (1846), VII. xxxvii. The very heavy gales … carried away the starboard quarter-gallery.
1830. Scott, Demonol., x. 363. He saw that the captain had thrown himself into the sea from the quarter-gallery.
1836. Marryat, Midsh. Easy, xiii. Pulled them out of the quarter gallery.
1867. [see Quarter-badge, in QUARTER sb. 29].
attrib. 1797. Nelson, Feb., in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), II. 342. A soldier … having broke the upper quarter-gallery window.
2. A small projection on the quarter of a ship, containing lavatory accommodation (Cent. Dict.).
